UBC Press

08/01/2025

Hooray! Two books from the Landmark Cases in Canadian Law series are finalists for the Walter Owen Book Prize, awarded by the Canadian Foundation for Legal Research. 🎉

Congratulations to Colton Fehr ("Judging S*x Work") and Paul Daly ("A Culture of Justification").

📚 About Landmark Cases in Canadian Law: https://www.ubcpress.ca/landmark-cases-in-canadian-law

07/31/2025

"The Debt of a Nation" by Angela C. Tozer is available through Open Access!

"The Debt of a Nation" reveals not only the intimate relationship between public debt financing and colonization but also its continuing implications for contemporary Canadian Politics. https://www.ubcpress.ca/debt-of-a-nation-oa

Publishing "The Debt of a Nation" through Open Access is made possible with the support of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences' Scholarly Book Awards and Open Access book grant.

07/30/2025

Thanks, Choice Reviews, for including "Autism and the Culture of Therapy" (forthcoming, October 2025) in your TIE Preview of Upcoming Reads in Disability Studies!

Happy ! Don't miss TIE's latest preview of upcoming reads on https://ow.ly/cRRL50WuIY1
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07/25/2025

Evangelical pastor, talk-show host, politician, musician.

"Pentecostal Preacher Woman" explores the complex life of Bernice Gerard, one of the most influential spiritual figures of twentieth-century British Columbia. https://bit.ly/4lH5ihq

07/24/2025

From our Purich Books imprint:

Against the backdrop of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, "Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage" examines past and emerging issues in the recognition of Indigenous inherent human rights and knowledge within a Canadian legal context. https://bit.ly/46iWARP

07/23/2025

"Feathered Entanglements" investigates human-bird relations across the Indo-Pacific and shows what birds can teach us about how to live with other species in the Anthropocene. 🐦 https://bit.ly/4m5Lh3Z

07/18/2025

Available in paperback and open access PDF, "Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence" provides guidance for enhancing the management of a vast and complex marine system. https://bit.ly/4eVSYYl

07/16/2025

We love this list of books on BC water life. Check it out! Water you waiting for? 🌊

Dive deep into our province's waters through apocalyptic comedies, climate calls to action, and stories from rivers and the people who live off them.

07/14/2025

Can reading about the cold cool us down? Probably not, but we're willing to try. 🥵

"After Ice" asks us to consider how we define the experience of cold – its temporal, spatial, and material qualities – as cycles of freezing and thawing change across our warming planet. 🧊 https://bit.ly/4eZi3Bx

07/11/2025

The Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP) strongly condemns the Government of Alberta’s decision to mandate the removal of books deemed “sexually explicit” from school libraries, a move that disproportionately targets 2SLGBTQIA+ stories under the pretense of age-appropriate content regulati...

07/04/2025

Available in paperback and open access PDF, "The Debt of a Nation" reveals not only the intimate relationship between public debt financing and colonization but also its continuing implications for contemporary Canadian politics. https://bit.ly/44gfNCn

07/02/2025

"The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out" documents the tumultuous struggle of one coal-mining region to stave off economic ruin in the face of changing times and technologies. https://bit.ly/3HPokmJ